Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi HendrixYou need Power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Charlie ChaplinMusic has a power of forming the character and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
AristotleEverything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeAnyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
AristotleThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice WalkerGoodness armed with power is corrupted, and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold NiebuhrPower based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiThe false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
Rabindranath TagoreAs we look ahead into the next century leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill GatesWhat it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
AristotleMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughEvil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenRespect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint EastwoodNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinWho is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinLove him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
Donald TrumpBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony RobbinsEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de BalzacWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkePassion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah WinfreyShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawA pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich NietzscheEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilThe ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich FrommThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleCourage allows the successful woman to fail, and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so that in the end she didn't fail at all.
Maya AngelouEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'RourkeI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyThe tendency to aggression is an innate independent instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund FreudFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanUnless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Oprah WinfreyThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. WashingtonForce does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah WinfreyThe power of Thought the magic of the Mind!
Lord ByronLet him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar GracianCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power, but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston ChurchillThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman HesseI call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Herman HesseIn the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone WeilThe desire for power in excess caused angels to fall, the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall, but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it.
Francis BaconIf you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus AureliusDesperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin DisraeliGetting and spending we lay waste our powers.
William WordsworthTo describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya AngelouThere is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SophoclesWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassNow we have a problem in making our power credible and Vietnam is the place.
John F. KennedyWell I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice WalkerThe sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William JamesUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyWe are born to action, and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush LimbaughOne without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.
Sai BabaYour duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sai BabaWant balance in your life? Then sure get your own act together but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyIf we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it, if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonEverything that enlarges the sphere of human powers that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not need more intellectual power we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin CoolidgeMastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillFortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard ShawEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne DyerOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony RobbinsConciliate a strong man by submission a wicked man by opposition and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.
ChanakyaAir power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston ChurchillNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor RooseveltGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster FullerThe world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich NietzschePower over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe less effort the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeWhen one sings alone the heart is merged in the song. But when many sing together it acquires a Divine power.
Sai BabaHe who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but with less power.
PlatoIt's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingI can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.
Vincent Van GoghOnly through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck PalahniukVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceBecause your own strength is unequal to the task do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man, but if anything is within the powers and province of man believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus AureliusI have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul RyanI repeat... that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliThey are decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillThe world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William WordsworthThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. BushThe power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.
Winston ChurchillThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotTo get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone WeilIn the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Arthur BaldwinNext to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellIn the Bible we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuThe most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson MiznerThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing, to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeThe selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced, so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge, selfishness by Love.
James AllenLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireHe who possesses intelligence is strong, how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest, having lost his senses by intoxication, was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit.
ChanakyaIn the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonAnyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireMy great comfort is that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers, I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord ByronIf you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.
Stephen CoveyA man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward BeecherWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever, no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself, no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen CoveyExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric HofferDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. KissingerMy relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJustice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be powerful and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalGod our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul KalamWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamPower is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret ThatcherBut to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan WattsSound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og MandinoI don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Yogi BerraThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. BushChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaA horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong powerful beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam BrownIt is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James AllenIt takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint EastwoodTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch